the potter
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_45 9:11
(for though they had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to election might stand,
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_45 9:18
So then, He shows mercy to whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 16:4
The LORD has prepared everything for His purpose-- even the wicked for the day of disaster.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_23 64:8
Yet LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; we all are the work of Your hands.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 18:3-6
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So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was, working away at the wheel.
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But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter's hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.
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The word of the LORD came to me:
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"House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter [treats his clay]?"-- [this is] the LORD's declaration. "Just like clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel.
one vessel
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_45 9:22
And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_45 9:23
And [what if] He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory--
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered pot, a jar no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they have not known?
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_28 8:8
Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like discarded pottery.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_44 9:15
But the Lord said to him, "Go! For this man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before Gentiles, kings, and the sons of Israel.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_55 2:20
Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver bowls, but also those of wood and earthenware, some for special use, some for ordinary.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_55 2:21
So if anyone purifies himself from these things, he will be a special instrument, set apart, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
